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Tolstoy's Art and Thought, 1847-1880 / Donna Tussing Orwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resource (292 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691069913
  • 9781400820887
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.733
LOC classification:
  • PG3415.P5O
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Documentation -- Introduction -- Part One: THE 1850S -- One. Analysis and Synthesis -- Two. The Young Tolstoy's Understanding of the Human Soul -- Three. The First Synthesis: Nature and the Young Tolstoy -- Part Two: THE 1860S -- Four. Nature and Civilization in The Cossacks -- Five. The Unity of Man and Nature in War and Peace -- Part Three: THE 1870S -- Six. From Nature to Culture in the 1870s -- Seven. Drama in Anna Karenina -- Eight. Science, Philosophy, and Synthesis in the 1870s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: "My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina. Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for moral certainty unfolded, creating fundamental differences among the great novels of the "pre-crisis" period.Distinguished by its historical emphasis, this book demonstrates that the great novelist, who had once seen a fundamental harmony between human conscience and nature's vitality, began eventually to believe in a dangerous rift between the two: during the years discussed here, Tolstoy moved gradually from a celebration of life to instruction about its moral dimensions. Paying special attention to Tolstoy's reading of Rousseau, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and the Russian thinker N. N. Strakhov, Orwin also explores numerous other influences on his thought. In so doing, she shows how his philosophical and emotional conflicts changed form but continued unabated--until, with his religious conversion of 1880, he surrendered his long attempt to make sense of life through art alone.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Documentation -- Introduction -- Part One: THE 1850S -- One. Analysis and Synthesis -- Two. The Young Tolstoy's Understanding of the Human Soul -- Three. The First Synthesis: Nature and the Young Tolstoy -- Part Two: THE 1860S -- Four. Nature and Civilization in The Cossacks -- Five. The Unity of Man and Nature in War and Peace -- Part Three: THE 1870S -- Six. From Nature to Culture in the 1870s -- Seven. Drama in Anna Karenina -- Eight. Science, Philosophy, and Synthesis in the 1870s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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"My aim is to present Tolstoy's work as he may have understood it himself," writes Donna Orwin. Reconstructing the intellectual and psychic struggles behind the masterpieces of his early and middle age, this major study covers the period during which he wrote The Cossacks, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina. Orwin uses the tools of biography, intellectual and literary history, and textual analysis to explain how Tolstoy's tormented search for moral certainty unfolded, creating fundamental differences among the great novels of the "pre-crisis" period.Distinguished by its historical emphasis, this book demonstrates that the great novelist, who had once seen a fundamental harmony between human conscience and nature's vitality, began eventually to believe in a dangerous rift between the two: during the years discussed here, Tolstoy moved gradually from a celebration of life to instruction about its moral dimensions. Paying special attention to Tolstoy's reading of Rousseau, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and the Russian thinker N. N. Strakhov, Orwin also explores numerous other influences on his thought. In so doing, she shows how his philosophical and emotional conflicts changed form but continued unabated--until, with his religious conversion of 1880, he surrendered his long attempt to make sense of life through art alone.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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